GAROWE (HOL) – Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland state imposed a ban on political gatherings, despite presidential elections scheduled for early next year, heaping pressure on independent presidential candidates who started large election campaigns across the region.

ADDIS ABABA (HOL) - The former president for Ethiopia’s Somali region who was arrested on suspicion of gross human rights violations as well as instigating ethnic and religious violence makes his third court appearance Monday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's cautious reaction to reports that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Istanbul Saudi Consulate was designed to delay a diplomatic crisis with Arab countries, The Guardian newspaper said .

Residents of Dayniile district in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, can now enjoy better-policing services closer to their homes, following the renovation of a hitherto derelict district police headquarters.

October 2018 marks seven years since the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) crossed the border into Southern Somalia on October 16, 2011 in pursuit of the al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab group, which had kidnapped foreign tourists and aid workers inside Kenya.

Kylian Mbappe tore Lyon to shreds on Sunday with four goals as a 5-0 thrashing at the Parc des Princes saw Paris Saint-Germain set a new French top-flight record of nine straight wins to start a season.

The disappearance and alleged killing last week of dissident Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi while he was visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul is only the latest challenge to a U.S.-Saudi relationship that both governments have diligently cultivated.

The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take “unprecedented” actions to cut their carbon emissions over the next decade, according to a landmark report by the top scientific body studying climate change.

Lawmakers for a regional state in Somalia shelved a vote of confidence against their president on Sunday in what appeared to be a tactical retreat following talks with the embattled leader who had to cut short of a trip in Mogadishu amid the looming vote

MOGADISHU (HOL) – The Al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group warned the Somalia’s independent education umbrellas against direct collaboration with the government which is struggling to shake up the country’s education system wrecked by decades of conflict in its efforts to introduce the country’s new education curriculum across the country.